Pat McCrory saw fit to make jokes about transgender people at the RNC, still referencing his beloved HB 2, even with the latest massive cost to the state with the withdrawal of the NBA.
McCrory took the stage and immediately started acting like a flight attendant.
“All right, let’s be safe now. We’ve got a big crowd, so if you need to leave suddenly, we’ve got exits this way, exits this way and exits this way,” McCrory said, motioning straight ahead, to his right and to his left. “And if any of you need to use the restrooms …”
McCrory paused as the crowd of several thousand laughed and cheered his reference to legislation passed earlier this year that requires individuals to use the restroom that matches the gender they were born with, not the one they identify with.
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As Politico reported, the backlash [to HB 2] reached the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on Monday, where an executive with the Raleigh-based company Citrix, Jesse Lipson, accused McCrory of not understanding how business worked by backing the law.
“Republicans may think they’re telling people which bathroom to go into,” Lipson said. “They’re actually telling people which market to stay out of.”
The Wells Fargo Center, where the event is being held, also had at least one all-gender restroom. Buzzfeed’s Dominic Holden posted a picture:
This bathroom at DNC is being used by men and women. It's busy in there. Nobody seems phased. pic.twitter.com/TO1foJJSoZ
— Dominic Holden (@dominicholden) July 26, 2016
One estimate of the NBA withdrawal of the all star game is 100 million in lost revenue, and McCrory thinks he’s being clever joking about HB 2? Seriously, I don’t know how much more NC can possibly take of this – the sheer amount of lost revenue is staggering, and people cannot be happy about watching their state’s economy plunge down a hole. Right now, McCrory is a bit player in the political scene, but outside of Trump, I can’t think of anyone else who so very badly needs to be forcibly ousted from his position. The amount of damage he has done is in the phenomenal range, and on many levels.
Via Washington Post and Raw Story.
He’s definitely on the short list of bigots vying to be remembered as the George Wallace of the 21st century.
He’s doing a Nero, joking while his state burns and collapses. It’s contemptible.
McWhiney is still pushing the narrative that HB2 is all about the safety of women and children. He and the “pro-business” republican bigots in the legislature are clueless gits. My only hope is that there is overwhelming support for democrats in the November election, and that McWhiney and his cronies are thrown out. A bonus would be for Richard Burr to lose his Senate seat. I have not seen much on that race, and I think Burr may be laying low trying to avoid controversy, or he could be waiting to blow his campaign funds closer to the race in November.
Cute, McCrory. Real cute.
Asshole.
The LA Times had a fairly scathing article, Can you make a non-racist Tarzan movie?:
Oops! Wrong window, sorry… me@5 was for poppyhead’s blog, you can guess the thread !
Here’s an interesting tidbit about McCrory I just ran across, and a presumably quite rare example of him doing something seemingly sensible and probably correct, That won’t fly: Venus flytrap thief snags prison sentence in North Carolina (my added emboldening):
Because of their rarity, Venus Fly Traps are quite expensive, so I presume McCrory signed the law more to protect the “industry” than the plant.
Too bad there isn’t a Stooopid Governor Trap plant…
Blf:
Yeah, it’s a shame the plant in Little Shop of Horrors isn’t real, plenty of candidates for food.
Kengi@1: I rather had the impression that Wallace eventually learned better. I don’t think McRory’s that bright.
Dominic Holden should have his reporter’s credentials revoked for using “phased” when he actually meant “fazed”.
Trickster Goddess #10
I’d agree but nobody else seems to have noticed or cared.
so I’m adding (phased/fazed) to the list of “already lost causes”.
Trickster Goddess @ 10:
Oh, how utterly silly of me to have completely missed the proper priority and focus! Why, who cares about civil rights, the fostering of open bigotry, hate, and fear, when oh gods, there is a spelling mistake! Alert the fucking presses, and all us queer folk be damned!
I will give you this much -- thinking that anyone should lose their credentials and job for such a minor mistake, well, you clearly illustrate how the deep stupidity and hate keeps being fueled all over. I’m sure, if you bother to read back, you won’t be in the least impressed by my absolute lack of care over such an egregious mistake, preferring to focus on the little things, like people being harmed, so you can not only shove it, dear Goddess, go ahead and whip out your phaser and shoot me.